Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-31

-" ~ ~ 49,
rcabops in which mas engage for the
strengthening of the body, Tor the clear
ing OF the intellect, for the iliUmipgtiun
Of the soul.
DOING GOOD.
There is still another form OF recrea-
ton which | commend TO o IL and that
is the pleasure OF doing coed. have
seen young men, weak and cross and
sour and repelling in their disposition,
who by n heavenly touch have wa
kened up and become blessed aud
buoyant, the ground under their feet
and the sky over their heads breaking
forth into music. sOh,' saws some
young man in the house TO day, 81
should like that recreation above ali
others, but | have not tho MEANS ' My
dear brother, let us take IN account OF
stock this morning. You have u large
estate, if you only realize it. Two
hands. Two feet. You will have.
perhaps. during the ley year Mt least
ten dollals for charitable contribution.
You viii have twenty-five hundred
cheerful looks, if YOU want TO employ
them. You viii nave five thousand
pleasant words, i. you want 10 speak
them. Now what al amount that is TO
stort with.
9ou 60 out tomorrow morning and
you see a case Of real restitution by the
way-side. You give him two cents.
The blind man hears the pennies rattle
in his hat. and he says, Thank you,
sir; God bless you" You pass down
the street, trying TO look Indifferent;
but you feel from the very depth OF
your soul a
PROFOUND SATISFACTION
that You made that mar happy. You
90 III still further, and find u poor boy
with a whcelbarrow, trying to get it
upon the curbstone. He fails in the
attempt. You say. "Stand back, my
lad; let me try" You push it up on
the curbstone for him, and pass on.
He wonders who that well-dressed man
was that Helped him. You did a kind
ness 10 the boy, but YOU did II great
JOY to your own soul. You will not
get over It all the week.
On the street, tomorrow morning,
you will see a sick man passing along.
'Ah," you say, ''wbat III l do TO
make this man happy He certainly
does not want money; he is not poor,
but he is sick" Give him one of those
twenty-five hundred cheerful LOOKS that
you have garnered up for the whole
year. Look joy and hopefulness into
his soul. Il will thrill him through,
and there will be a reaction upon your
own soul. Going ii little farther on.
you will come to the store of a friend
who is embarrassed in business matters.
You viii 60 in and say, What a fine
store you have! | think business will
brighten up, and you will have more
custom after n while. l think there is
coming a great prosperity to all the
country. Good-mornine." You pass
out. You have helped that
young man. and you have
helped yourself. And that night you
90 home; you sit by the fire, YOU talk
a little, you sing a little, you laugh Il
little; you say: IL really don't know
what is the matter with me. i never
felt so splendidly in my life" will
tell what is the matter with you. You
spent only two cents out of the ten dol
lars; you have contributed one out of
twenty-five hundred cheerfullooks; you
have have given ten, fifteen or twenty
OF the five thousand pleasant words you
are going to speak during the year;
you have with Your own hands helped
the boy with the w~heelbarrow, and you
feel in body, mind and soul the thrills
of that
RECREATION.
Which do you think was the happier,
Colonel Gardiner, who sat with his el-
bow on a table spread with all extrava-
CANT viands, looking off at a dog on
the rug, saying, How | would like TO
change places with him; | be the dog
and be be Colonel Gardiner;' or those
two Moravian missionaries who wanted
TO 90 into the lazaretto for the sake of
attending the sick, and they were
told, 'lf you 90 in there, you
will never come out. We never allow
any n to come out, for he would
bring the cOntagion." Then they
made their wills and went in, first to
help the sick, and then 10 die. Which
was the happier-Col. Gardiner, or the
Moravian missionaries dying for others.
Was it all SACRIFICE when the mission
aries wanted TO bring the Gospel to the
negroes at the Rarbadocs, and, being
denied the privilege, sold themselves
into slavery. standing side by side, and
lying side by side down III the very
ditch Of suffering, in order that they
might bring those men up to life and
God and heavenp Oh, there is a thrill
in the joy Of doing good! 1t is the
most magnificent recreation to which
a man ever puts his hand or his head
or his heart.
But, before closing, l want to i'm
press upon you that mere secular en-
tertainmerts are not q tit foundation
for Jour soul to build on.
TOO LATE.
/ was reading of a woman who had
gone all the rounds of sinful amuse
ment, and she came to die. She said,
II will die tonight at 6 o'clock"
oh" they said. 81 guess not. you
don't seem to be sick" II shall die
ut ~6..o'clock, and my soul will be lost.